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Status Report Mr Spock

Still here, still designing. Atmosphere is breathable. Starting a new agency is, it turns out, a lot of work. But it also been a lot of fun. Now we are facing the strange proposition of deliberately not doing chargeable work … Continue reading »

Forgotten, not gone

Happy new year and all that kind of thing. I’m back! I’m in Auckland and my agency is a living breathing boy. Although with Just myself in Auckland and Lulu is Wellington Lushai is a bit thin on the ground … Continue reading »

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More Insight

More insight from my UX work in London I’m in the process of wrapping up my London life before I start the long haul back to New Zealand on Friday. In the process of packing up our home I found … Continue reading »

Goodbye to all this

The UK that is, not the blog I’ve now finished my last day of work in the UK. I will be faffing around in London & Liverpool for a few weeks and then at the end of November heading home … Continue reading »

Mystery Thing

What I have done made It isn’t very often these days I get to do straight illustration or any kind of non UX old school design. So it’s always a treat when I get to do a new drawing for … Continue reading »

Really this time

The 5 most important lessons we can learn from Steve Jobs A lot of Apple insiders and industry analysts have used the genuinely sad occasion of the death of Steve Jobs to try and extract positive lessons from how he … Continue reading »

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Spurt

Opinions no one asked for inspired by a talk I didn’t hear at a conference I didn’t attend. I was really impressed by the slideshare ‘Truth or Dare’ that Jason Mesut posted recently from his Euro IA talk (which I … Continue reading »

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My Holiday

Babies’ heads, maps, whiteboards, everything I was fortunate enough to attend the Guardians UX drop in yesterday afternoon. We learnt how content is organised for the website (everything is tagged basically then sections can be created pulling in content based … Continue reading »

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Risk

Design always involves an element of risk. In fact the nature of risk in design has a lot in common with the nature of financial risk within investment institutions. In financial investment and in design we are effectively trying to … Continue reading »

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Minimalism

I hate you minimalism. Now let’s do it. This is your brain: This is your brain on minimalism:   Ha! Excellent joke, Dad. I absolutely despise/love minimalism, I’m a slave to it and find it utterly compelling but can’t stand … Continue reading »

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